ISLAMABAD, July 4,1998 (Reuters) - The supreme leader
of Taliban Islamic movement Mullah Mohammad Omar was quoted on Friday as
ruling out political parties under the Taliban rule.

He said in an interview with the Sharia magazine
in Kabul that Afghanistan had suffered internal enmities in the past because
of different parties, the Taliban-controlled Voice of Sharia radio said.

"We do not want divisions in the country and, moreover,
Islam also forbids divisions and condemns them,'' the broadcast, monitored
in Islamabad, quoted Omar as saying.

The Taliban movement, which controls more than two thirds
of Afghanistan, is fighting a north-based opposition alliance of several
factions.

On Wednesday, Omar ordered the Taliban government's Justice
Ministry to set up a committee under the supervision of the Supreme Court
to propose amendments in Afghanistan's constitution for a total enforcement
of the Islamic Sharia code.

The Taliban has vowed to enforce what it regards as the
purist Islamic system in the whole country.

In areas under their control, the Taliban authorities
have banned television sets, closed down girls' schools, and ordered women
to wear the all-enveloping "burqa'' veil and men to grow long
beards.

Taliban restrictions on women and punishments like amputation
of hands for theft and stoning to death for adultery have been criticised
by Western government and human rights groups.